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Originally Posted by ULTIMEGA

I've never heard about this one, actually. So now I'm curious.

In its simplest definition, Stochastic Terrorism is the act of using mass communication, like social media, news networks, etc, to generally incite hatred or violence towards a group or groups, such that acts of violence are individually unpredictable, but statistically likely.

So basically if you have a guy like Trump going on twitter and national television saying that Mexicans are drug dealers and Rapists, and his supporters describe them as an Invasion and an Infestation, and racist groups advocate for killing minorities, there's not necessarily any way to predict a -specific- incident of "somebody taking all this in and deciding to act violently on it" but you've created an atmosphere where "People who are inclined to react to things like this by doing violence, will at some point do violence."